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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Narrow-winged Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus angustipennis)
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Melanoplus foedus ? - Melanoplus angustipennis - female
Copyright © 2012 norman and cheryl lavers

Melanoplus foedus ? - Melanoplus angustipennis - Female
Gunner Pool campground, Ozark National Forest, Stone County, Arkansas, USA
July 16, 2011
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Contributed by norman and cheryl lavers on 29 October, 2012 - 2:12pm
Last updated 6 January, 2014 - 11:30pm

fits M. angustipennis better
This species likes sandy areas, and varies a lot in coloration. There is a chance I'm wrong, but I don't think so. Finding matching males would make it a sure thing since they are much easier to identify.

Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 4 November, 2012 - 12:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks very much.
Thanks very much.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 4 November, 2012 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

Possibly that is correct,
I'll need to look at options for Arkansas. I'm not sure how far east M. foedus ranges, and I'm not certain that is the only species that can look like this in the region. Plus, M. foedus is notorious for looking different in different regions.

Moved from Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 31 October, 2012 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you (as usual)
for your very quick attention. I am finding Capinera's range maps often pretty inadequate. Perhaps Arkansas records haven't been written up very much?
… norman and cheryl lavers, 1 November, 2012 - 8:40am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… norman and cheryl lavers, 29 October, 2012 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

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